Television

Casualty

Popular BBC Hospital Drama, Casualty has been running since 1986. The series explores the everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Based on a series of short stories written by real life doctor, A J Cronin, Dr Finlay’s Casebook proved one of the BBC’s most popular television series of the 1960s. Set in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the 1920s and 30s, it featured the idealistic young doctor Alan Finlay (played by Bill Simpson), learning his craft under the rather austere tutelage of Dr Angus Cameron (played by Andrew Cruikshank).

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine. Dr James Kildare, played by Richard Chamberlain, was a young and dedicated intern with Blair General Hospital. His boss, mentor and father figure was Dr. Leonard Gillespie, and together they tended to the physical ailments of their patients.

ER

Michael Crichton has created a medical drama that chronicles life and death in a Chicago hospital emergency room. Each episode tells the tale of another day in the ER, from the exciting to the mundane, and the joyous to the heart-rending. Frenetic pacing, interwoven plot lines, and emotional rollercoastering is used to attempt to accurately depict the stressful environment found there.

Flying Doctors

A series about Austalia's Royal Flying Doctors Service set in the small outback town of Coopers Crossing. Flying Doctors followed the lives of the medical staff and residents of the town and outlying sheep and cattle stations. After a successful initial mini series of 6 episodes in 1984, a further 221 episodes were made propelling the series into a worldwide success broadcast in over 50 countries.

Holby City

Popular BBC hospital drama, a spin-off from the long running Casualty series, Holby City covers the everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.

Inspector Rebus

In 2000 Inspector Rebus made his television debut with an adaptation of Black & Blue with John Hannah in the lead role. The series has now included The Hanging Garden, Dead Souls and Mortal Causes. The films were made in and around Edinburgh and designed to bring the qualities of Ian Rankin's novels to the screen: the complex and compelling plots, the finely pitched characters and the authentic sense of place in contemporary Edinburgh.

M*A*S*H

In his successful novel MASH, Dr Richard Hornberger turned his real-life Korean War experiences as a surgeon at the 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) into the fictional adventures of a trio of medics. The TV show portrayed the sheer horror of the war in Korea as seen by the medics, nurses and support staff working at a MASH.

Waking the Dead

Det. Supt. Peter Boyd (played by Trevor Eve) is the leader of a multi-discipline police team of detectives and scientists, the Cold Case Squad, which investigates old, unsolved murder cases using modern methods and new technology that may not have been available during the original investigation